Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Representative Dewey Short, only Republican from Missouri in Congress, rose in the House to answer Mr. Farley...
...debate that then began was broken off for supper, was resumed and continued bitterly until 2 a. m. When the meeting broke up the issue was still undecided. After the delegates had slept on it, they were no nearer agreement. Someone struck up the Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists were not standing. A howl of rage broke from the convention. Amid the general yammering...
...bulldog jaw unexpectedly stiff, Stanley Baldwin rose last week to make the strongest statement anybody had ever heard the Prime Minister deliver in the House of Commons...
Canada's Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett is now the dignified, correct and unpopular leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
...Prime Minister into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind of censor ship, London...